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tryptones

tryptones is the plural of tryptone.

Meaning of tryptone

Noun

tryptone (countable and uncountable, plural tryptones)

  1. The assortment of peptides formed by the digestion of casein by trypsin, a protease. Often used in the preparation of lysogeny broth.
    • Cells were grown from an overnight culture in tryptone broth at 30°C and then harvested.2000 March 3, Philippe Cluzel et al., “An Ultrasensitive Bacterial Motor Revealed by Monitoring Signaling Proteins in Single Cells”, in Science, volume 287, number 5458, →DOI, pages 1652–1655

Questions about tryptones

What is tryptones the plural of?
Tryptones is the plural of tryptone.

Words near tryptones in the dictionary

  1. tryptich
  2. tryptique
  3. tryptiques
  4. tryptoline
  5. tryptone
  6. tryptones
  7. tryptophan
  8. tryptophan synthase
  9. tryptophan synthetase
  10. tryptophanamide
  11. tryptophanase

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